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Forums / Error message : “You try to change something that doesn’t exist.”

Error message : “You try to change something that doesn’t exist.”

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    tampopo24 · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 8:59 am
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    Hello,

    Sorry for my poor english, I’m a French user searching for help.

    Since I closed an article that I was trying to modify without saving the last modification, so by clicking on “close the page”, I have this message that appear each time I try to modify or post an article or a draft.

    “Vous tentez de modifier un élément qui n’existe pas. Peut-être a-t-il été supprimé ?“

    (You try to modidy a element that doesn’t exist. Maybe was it deleted ?”)

    I’m horribly worried. I hope I haven’t lost everything. I can’t create or modify anything on my blog. I haven’t even access to comment, to answer to them. But it seems the blog is still online…

    Do you know what happen to me et what I can do.

    Thanks in advance

    ——

    In French :

    Depuis que j’ai fermé un article que j’étais en train de modifier sans enregistrer la dernière modification, donc en cliquant sur « quitter la page », j’ai le message suivant qui s’affiche à chaque fois que j’essaie de modifier un article, un brouillon ou d’en créer un.

    « Vous tentez de modifier un élément qui n’existe pas. Peut-être a-t-il été supprimé ? »

    Ce qui bien sûr m’inquiète beaucoup. J’espère que je n’ai pas tout perdu. Je ne peux plus créer ou modifier le moindre contenu. Je n’ai plus non plus accès aux commentaires de mes articles. Pourtant le blog semble bien en ligne.

    Savez-vous ce qu’il m’arrive et ce que je dois faire.

    Merci d’avance.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    ukmaryanne · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 9:44 am
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    Yeah, me too – must be a global problem? I can’t post at all.

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    tampopo24 · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 9:47 am
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    I’ve found in search on the forum. For me it’s because it doesn’t support Firefox anymore but it’s perfectly ok with Google Chrome ;)

    Maybe try too. ^^

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    ukmaryanne · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 9:48 am
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    Just popping back to say that as well. I hope they sort it soon. I really don’t want to use a different browser (although it does work with Safari too :) )

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    justjennifer · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 10:06 am
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    Hi there, Can you please let us know what OS you’re using? Thanks.

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    ukmaryanne · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 10:12 am
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    I am using Catalina, because I need to to use a different program that won’t work in later updates. 10.15.7

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    robertghetau · Staff · Jul 18, 2024 at 10:40 am
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    Hey folks! Thank you for raising this!

    Could you share what version of Chrome you are all using, please?

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    justjennifer · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 12:15 pm
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    Can you please check again and let us know if you’re still encountering an issue.

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    tampopo24 · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 6:22 pm
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    Hi, I’l using  126.0.6478.128 (Build officiel) (64 bits) version

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    tampopo24 · Member · Jul 18, 2024 at 6:23 pm
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    It’s alright now. Thank you very much for your help !

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    robertghetau · Staff · Jul 19, 2024 at 10:06 am
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    Thank you for letting us know @tampopo24!

    Don’t hesitate to reach out again!

    Marking this thread as resolved for now.

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